https://youtu.be/glXA3ObwSwQ?t=659

not good.

The Steam Machine exists to make money for Steam, if you watch the Gamers Nexus tear down, you will notice that its repairability level is crap, unlike pc’s. The Steam Machine has no redeeming features, aside from its marketability to zombies. It is just a small form factor pc, with some proprietary parts (a bad thing) running linux. Proprietary parts are an obvious step backwards, they are not new of course, other trash manufacturers like dell use them to create ewaste pc’s as well. I have seen multiple people online say they are building, or want to build a Steam Machine, they are so daft that is what they are calling a pc now.

It is a very poorly specced pc, that is not easy to maintain, comes with a single dimm of ram, is overpriced, and contains proprietary parts. The steam machine is a significant step backwards for personal computing.

Building a pc is no doubt scary if you are not used to it. It does make sense to own a pre-built first, just so you can become more familiar with the parts, but once you build, you are very unlikely to want a pre-built, and will also look at the specs of the steam machine and wonder why anyone would even consider it. Gaming is very easy on linux due to steam, you just install it and play games. Distro selection… well everyone has an opinion. I use Manjaro KDE because it is very user friendly.

You built a pc, don’t call it a steam machine, even if you are a zombie consumer.

Fair point

A laptop with no redeeming features.

The logical assumption would be that such a system would need to detect a face for the car to start.

I want my next car to be an ev… but with manual window winders